Behind The Scenes

Menu Photography Shoot I think the key to good commercial food photography is the ability for the food photographer to make the food look as appetizing as possible. That sounds like a “given”, but most food photographers concentrate more on making a “pretty picture”, than on making the food look as good as possible. The…

Sexy Food Photography Lighting Technique There’s something pretty sexy about the lighting of the chocolate on top of that brownie. It’s kind of hard to put your finger on, but there isn’t much denying it. Can you figure it out? It’s the fact that the highlight doesn’t have a hard edge. It just sort of…

Yogurt Food Photography Critique and Behind the Scenes I tried to put together another image critique and I had some behind the scenes photos too, so I included them. I would think that a novice food photographer would be curious to see what a food shoot looks like and to see a little of what…

Behind The Scenes of Nestle Coffee Maker Shoot I almost forgot to post this… I had it saved as a draft and just ran across it. The funny thing was that I was not allowed to release it until the client had a chance to do so first. We shot two days for social media…

Food Photography Tips – How to Capture Steam This post is actually one I wrote a long time ago, but the trick still works, so I thought I’d recycle it and see if there is any interest… Michael Ray gives how professional food photographers capture steam in their photos. I was recently on a food…

Food Photographer Q & A #2 : by Simi Jois – My question : How important is post-processing to the final look of the image? I guess you’ll have to be the judge of that. Below the final image, I’ve posted the original one. As you can see, all, I’ve really done is to flip…

Behind The Scenes at a S’mores Food Photography Shoot Here are a few images showing how the above food photography image was produced. This was in interesting food photography challenge that I have never faced before. How do I make a food photo look as though it was shot outside, at dusk. S’mores are a…

Food Photography of cupcakes Here’s something from yesterday’s food photography shoot. It’s kind of interesting that I’ve been asked twice in two weeks to create dusk or evening food photographs. The last shot was of s’mores and this is for a dinner party. I’ll soon be posting the behind-the-scenes photos for the s’more shoot, but…